Celebrating Pride Month With Mosaic Rainbows
(4 min read) Yo! The month of June we here and you know what that means! The world is about to be swarmed with scantily clad, vibrantly colored, cheerful, happy people. From the LGBTQ community to millions of allies, everyone is about to hit the streets and celebrate sexual liberation and consciousness.
Pride Month is celebrated to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City. Also known as Stonewall Riots, the Stonewall Uprising started in the early hours of June 28, 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay club located in Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan. Police roughly hauled both employees and guests out of the bar, leading to six days of protests and heavy clashes with law enforcement in this part of the city. This event served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement first in the US and subsequently all around the world.
The first US gay rights organization was documented in 1924. It was called The Society for Human Rights (SHR) and it was founded by Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, eager to make a change for the better. The group created and published several issues of their powerful newsletter called “Friendship and Freedom”, making it the country’s first gay newsletter. Police raids forced the organization to disband just one year later.
Thirty years after the SHR was forcefully disbanded, America’s first lesbian rights organization was founded. The Daughters of Billits was formed in progressive San Francisco on September 21, 1955. In 1966, just three years before Stonewall Riots, members of the Mattachine Society, gay rights organization, staged a “sip-In”. They openly declared their sexual preferences at taverns, daring staff members to turn them away and taking legal action against establishments that did. Subsequently, The Commission on Human Rights ruled that gay people had the right to be served in bars and taverns just like everyone else.
Police raids stopped for a while, but came back full force at some point. On the morning of June 28, 1969, armed with a warrant officers entered Th Stonewall Inn. They arrested 13 people, including employees and patrons violating the state’s gender-appropriate clothing statute. This basically means that female police officers took suspected cross-dressers into the bathroom and checked their sex. Imagine the utter humiliation…
Needless to say, fed up with constant social discrimination and police raids, angry patrons and neighbors started peacefully protesting in front of the bar. Once the police started aggressively manhandling them, the riots began. The riots really took off when a policeman hit a lesbian over the head and forced her into the van. She shouted to onlookers, urging them to act, and the crowd started throwing pennies, glass bottles, and cobblestones at the police.
Once a full. blown riot began, the police, several prisoners, and a Village Voice writer took shelter in the bar, building a barricade in front of it. The mob set fire to chase them out, but the riot squad and the fire department were able to douse the flames and disperse the crowd. The protest involving thousands of people from the area lasted for five days, and what we have today is a direct legacy left to us by those brave people who decided it was enough. They were the galvanizing force for LGBTQ activism as we know it.
We here at Mosaics Lab are big on celebrating the message that the LGBTQ activists are conveying to this day. To honor those who fought for their rights during the Stonewall Uprising and all of those who were there before them and those who came after, we dedicate this article to the symbol of LGBTQ activism everywhere – the rainbow.
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I am thrilled to know the story behind the Pride Month and the events that led up to the iconic month.
The mosaics are absolutely stunning and leave a lasting impression on the viewer’s mind, like it did for me!
I am loving all of these beautiful and colourful rainbow mosaics. They certainly represent pride.
LOVE all of these! Rainbows really are so happy! You can’t help but feel good when you see them.
These rainbow mosaics are amazingly beautiful. It’s a great art to celebrate pride month.
This looks like an amazing mosaic of rainbows, and I look forward to seeing it. They are all unique and beautiful!
Gorgeous pieces..I love the vibrant colours. A beautiful celebration for Pride Month ^_^
These mosaics are so pretty! I’d love to have them on my home!
I always in awe of the work you showcase on your site, I need to find a piece to add to my home! I love how mosaics look.
Mosaic is such a versatile medium to express and communicate feelings, thoughts, concepts.
I love rainbow mosaics, they’re so pretty!!! The Stunning Rainbow mosaic created by Julie Edmunds is gorgeous I’d love one in my home..
Pride month is amazing! I’m enjoying seeing all the colours in the street!
One of the most creative blog posts I have ever come across! It is important to celebrate diversity in this world and I am glad that creativity and a hue of colors have inspired you to pen down this blog post.
These mosaics are absolutely incredibly beautiful works of art! I’d love to get into the craft of creating mosaics someday – it seems like fun!
This is beautiful. What a wonderful way to express our support as we celebrate Pride Month. The stone and glass rainbow mosaic is my favorite. What a perfect combination.
These mosaic rainbows are all so beautiful. They are striking and I love their uniqueness. Such a great way to celebrate pride month!
What a wonderful and beautiful collection of colourful mosaics. I can see why they are great for celebrating pride.
I guess I’ve never made the connection that stained glass and mosaic can be the same. I have seen so many gorgeous stained glass windows over my life that really were mosaics!!
I love all of these and a perfect way to celebrate Pride month
How stunning are these rainbows, such a vibrant colour palette. And it’s nice to be celebrating inclusion as well x
I loved seeing the beautiful mosaics! Such colorful expressions of art!
Such a colorful post! I LOVE It!
These are some really pretty rainbow mosaics. I have to admit I love rainbows an have made my own rainbow mosaic.
Such stunning rainbow inspired mosaic art here. My favourite has to be Julie Edmunds’ rainbow design. Such a great way to celebrate Pride month
Such pretty mosaics! Love seeing so many amazing pieces of art!
A beautiful celebration of pride! Fabulous artworks that showcase inclusivity and beauty in all.
Absolutely loving all those rainbow mosaic artworks and they are looking vibrant
I do not celebrate pride month but I do like the Stunning Rainbow mosaic created by Julie Edmunds.
It’s so lovely to see pride represented in art! I love the idea of having such colorful and fun mosaics generally, and for pride month, it’s a great idea.
Art is such a great and vivid way to celebrate something. Great pieces of art here.
Those Mosaics are perfect to hang on my living room! Just in time for the Pride Month!
These rainbow mosaics are absolutely beautiful! I loved looking at all the pictures.
beautiful design. Pride or not Rainbow never fails to brigthen up the day
All of those rainbow mosaic artworks are looking absolutely amazing.
Absolutely gorgeous mosaics. I love the ones with buttons and sea glass. I hope one day, people will forget about labels for people and allow them to just be people, regardless of their sexual orientation.
I love the idea of celebrating Pride Month with mosaic rainbows! It’s a creative and colorful way to show support and inclusivity. The pictures of the mosaic artwork are beautiful and inspiring. Thanks for sharing this wonderful project!
It’s wonderful to see the celebration of Pride Month with mosaic rainbows! Mosaics are such a beautiful and artistic way to express inclusivity and diversity.
I love that you found so many different types of rainbow mosaics to help celebrate the month of pride!